Yeah.
Technical users are laughing their way to the bank on it, though. It’s so easy to set up an old htpc for dirt cheap and just use it that way without “smart” functionality.
The declining birth rate isn’t going to hurt anyone alive today.
Having a top heavy age demographic means less tax revenue will be split between more required services. There will also be fewer labourers with more labour requirements. The only ones it won’t hurt are the billionaires.
Religion today is voluntary, at least in most of the world.
You often don’t have the autonomy to not participate in religion as a child if your parents want you to.
there are plenty of video essays that I’ve watched for content that I never watched in the first place, because the analysis was highly entertaining and is much less time consuming
This makes me think of Angela Collier’s essay segment “that time I read and enjoyed Ayn Rand”, because nobody should ever have to sit through reading Atlas Shrugged.
It seems like people are so eagre to bash AI that they’re willing to invent their own narrative to shit on anyone who remotely sounds like they support it, even if that’s not the case.
I appreciate you actually taking the time and effort to read.